Drag Queen Flamy Grant (Real name Matthew Blake) is working on a music album about the spiritual trauma he endured growing up in a town where his whole world was a “faith-saturated, fundamentalist, very evangelical space that didn’t exactly embrace a queer kid with cross-dressing tendencies.”
Blake, who describes himself as a “shame-slaying, soothsaying, hip-swaying heathen and infidel” while singing “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord a look. A bless his hearts, we’re gonna leave them feeling shook” has a bit of help on this nasty little endeavor, with collaborators Derek Webb and Grace Baldridge lending a hand.
Webb apostatized several years ago into the purest form of paganism, but used to be the frontman for Caedmon’s Call and had 10 GMA Dove Award nominations and half as many Christian radio hits.
Semler is a queer artist and is a newcomer to the Christian music scene, gaining some publicity after her profanity-laced album briefly the top spot on iTunes Christian and Gospel charts. Her real name is Grace Semler Baldridge, she’s a butch lesbian who’s married to a woman while purposefully altering her appearance to look like a man—giving the impression she’s about one upper chest surgery from becoming transgendered. She is gaining more and more prominence and was instrumental in both Switchfoot and Relient K coming out as gay-affirming- the latter whom she has been touring with. She’s not even close to a Christian, despite what Leigh Nash of Sixpence None the richer (who is also LGBTQ affirming, according to Semler) may say.
According to his website, “Flamy is founder and co-host of Heathen Podcast, a show about breaking up with bad religion; a songstress and musician who performs across the country; and the internet’s polygender preacher, taking on toxic religion by turning looks and tearing down shame in her signature 60-second sermons on TikTok.”
He sought to crowdfund the entire album and has reached his goal, with the introductory video below.
The only real takeaway from this story is how openly subversive Semler is about her desire to see her perverse sexual proclivities become commonplace. This is not some sort of respectable, proper Revoice-attending woman who has all her theology buttoned up and orthodox save for this one area where she deviates slightly, but rather is raving lunatic in a tie-dye shirt wearing a boot on her head and a ‘Gay Pride’ logo tattooed on her neck that is lobbing sophistry bombs in order to start a rainbow war, and all these so-called Christian bands platforming her are complicit in it.
